August 2013

I have a quality weekend reading recommendation for all the IT pros looking for the latest and greatest information on Automation. One my favorite blogs is Building Clouds, and the automation SME’s who contribute to that site just wrapped up “Automation Month.” Check out this post to see links to all the topics they’ve explored...

[Please see this post — we’ve shipped!] Hi folks, We made it! Today we’re sharing with you a public preview of the massively updated rights management offering. Let’s jump right in… The new Microsoft RMS enables organizations to share sensitive documents within their organization or to other organizations with unprecedented ease. These documents...

Howdy folks, Today I’m blogging about some exciting news from a part of the Active Directory team that we haven’t talked about much yet – our Rights Management Service (RMS) team. Just a few hours ago, our RMS team turned on the public preview of: The latest version of the Windows Azure RMS service RMS...

The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: August 1, 2013 at the top of the topic. This month sees additional prerelease information for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, as well as updates to...

Part 9 of a 9-part series. A major promise underlying all of the 2012 R2 products is really simple: Consistency. Consistency in the user experiences, consistency for IT professionals, consistency for developers and consistency across clouds. A major part of delivering this consistency is the Windows Azure Pack (WAP). Last week we discussed how...

As noted in my earlier post about the availability dates for the 2012 R2 wave, we are counting the days until our partners and customers can start using these products. Today I am proud to announce a big milestone: Windows Server 2012 R2 has been released to manufacturing! This means that we are handing the...

One request we often receive is for information on reinstalling cumulative updates with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. This comes up specifically in the case of a disaster recovery scenario, where hotfixes may need to be reinstalled to the same server following a restore from backup. The challenge is that our cumulative updates do not...

This blog post describes a problem that prevents pull-distribution points, which were introduced with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1, from acquiring packages that were migrated from another Configuration Manager site. Scenario After a package is migrated from one site to another (e.g., from a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 site to System Center 2012...

Part 8 of a 9-part series. Don’t let the title fool you – this post is critically important for Developers and IT pros. The reason I call out this warning up front is that often, when I’m speaking at conferences around the world, as soon as I start to discuss the developer perspective and developer...

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Everyone (and I mean everyone) on the Microsoft 365 team has been pursuing some very ambitious goals in the ten months since we launched Microsoft 365. Those goals have all been laser focused on one key thing: Helping our customers effectively navigate their own unique path towards the digital transformation that they need to succeed...

Howdy folks, Today I’m happy to announce the public preview of the PingFederate configuration integration in the latest release of AADConnect. With this release customers can easily and reliably configure their Azure Active Directory environment to use PingFederate as their federation provider, and we’re excited to offer a more seamless integration experience to our customers....

If you ever got to shadow a Microsoft leader for a day and listen in on the meetings they attend, I think you’d be surprised by how much time is spent talking about how to support the day-to-day work done by IT Pros. We think about this constantly. A lot of answers to these questions...

On Wednesday we announced that the Microsoft Intune APIs being surfaced through Microsoft Graph have been moved from “preview” to Generally Available. We are really excited about this milestone, and we look forward to learning how to make it even better as you give us feedback and direction on the way you want to use...

Last week at Microsoft Ignite, more than 25,000 IT professionals converged in Orlando Florida to learn about Microsoft’s technology advancements, skill up across new products, and meet with Microsoft experts. For EMS we unveiled a wave of new capabilities, presented more than 45 sessions, and met with thousands of customers. I wanted to take a...